Time Quotes

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.

Larry Niven

The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.

William James

Nay, tempt me not to love again There was a time when love was sweet Dear Nea had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet But oh this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one Would I endure such pangs again.

Sir Thomas More

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Richard Feynman

Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?

William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 2

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Arthuer Schopenhaue

Now is the time for all good men to come to.

Walt Kelly

The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.

William Shakespeare, "Troilus and Cressida", Act 4 scene 5

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. Were looking for something, though were not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preache

To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend to read it a second time is to meet an old one.

Selwyn Champion

Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.

Pearl Bailey

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

Georges Bernanos

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

Hippocrates

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.

Unknown

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

George Bernard Shaw

I felt that I had done my duty. Nothing drove me now. I had run out of causes and was as close as I might ever be to peace. With all this behind me, I felt that if I had to die now, it was all right. I would not protest quite so loudly as I would have at any other time.

Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos

I remember how, in college, I got that part - Time job as a circus clown, and how the children would laugh and laugh at me. I vowed, then and there, that I would get revenge.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

One thing you will probably remember well is anytime you forgive and forget.

Franklin P. Jones

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

Nigerian Prove

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - A thing which can never be demonstrated.

Tyron Edwards

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Frances Rodman

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

Simeon Strunsky, No Mean City (1944)

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

Hellen Kelle

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

Guy

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Ted Williams

A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.

Greek Prove

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Sigmund Freud

Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid.

Robert Browning

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Johann von Goethe

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Gore Vidal

Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The best time to do a thing is when it can be done.

William Pickens